The Child Perceptions Questionnaire (CPQ(11-14)) is a self-administered instrument for the assessment of oral health-related quality of life in children. The objective of this study was to translate and adapt the questionnaire for use in Brazil. The questionnaire was translated from the English original into Brazilian Portuguese using the back-translation method (English/Portuguese/English), fo...

Mining informative patterns from databases is the historical task of data mining. But now, mining actionable patterns is becoming the new duty of data mining. Most of machine learning and data mining algorithms only focus on finding patterns and usually don't take any step for suggesting actions and users will be responsible for it. Therefore users will be faced with many patterns that they are...

Although economic texts are generally examined in terms of their specialized discourse, they include numerous conceptual metaphors that conceptualize economy or economy-related issues different ways. These serve various functions such as decreasing ambiguity and incomprehensibility discourse. For these reasons, have become an important constitutive part the analysis texts. Similarly, translatio...

The ubiquitous low-cost connectivity synonymous with the internet has changed the competitive business environment by dissolving traditional sources of competitive advantage based on size, location and the like. In this level playing field, firms are forced to compete on the basis of knowledge. Data mining tools and techniques provide e-commerce applications with novel and significant knowledge...

-It is assumed that learners may feel anxious while listening in the target language due to many factors such as the authenticity of the listening text, incomprehensibility of the listening material and environmental factors. In this respect, developing effective listening strategies may help to overcome many problems related to target language listening. It is then of interest for reserachers ...

This article introduces the Special Issue on simple versus complex methods in forecasting. Simplicity in forecasting requires that (1) method, (2) representation of cumulative knowledge, (3) relationships in models, and (4) relationships among models, forecasts, and decisions are all sufficiently uncomplicated as to be easily understood by decision-makers. Our review of studies comparing simple...

PURPOSE To explore the experience of registered nurses (RNs) caring for patients in contemporary hospitals. DESIGN The descriptive phenomenological study was based in the philosophical perspectives of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. METHODS A purposive sample of 46 RNs employed in acute care hospitals in the southeastern United States (US) were recruited by network sampling. Data from unstructur...

Graphical presentations can be used to communicate information in relational data sets succinctly and effectively. However, novel graphical presentations that represent many attributes and relationships are often difficult to understand completely until explained. Automatically generated graphical presentations must therefore either be limited to generating simple, conventionalized graphical pr...

In their pursuit of adaptively biased misbelief-making systems, McKay & Dennett (M&D) describe a putative doxastic shear-pin system which enables misbeliefs to form in situations of extreme psychological stress. Rather than discussing their argument, I consider how this shear-pin system might combine with both pathological belief-making (“culpable” breakdowns caused by neuropathy) and normal be...